i can hear your voice

Uncle Chang took the adventure team to the elementary school, passing by the trunk of the sacred tree on the way.

At the bottom of the trunk with a diameter of more than 100 meters, Ruopu looked at the huge tree roots like small hills exposed on the ground, and at the bark of the sacred tree about two meters away from him. Check out this giant tree.

Huh?The tree is actually hollow!But for such a big tree, it might be normal to be hollow.

Also, there seems to be a sound in the tree, like the cry of an animal. Could it be that squirrels and other animals made holes in the sacred tree and lived in it?

After going around a hundred meters along the trunk like a wooden wall, a semicircular pool appeared in front of everyone. The area of ​​the pool was about ten square meters. One end was next to the trunk of the sacred tree, and the other end was connected to a small river. In other words, the water canal, the pool water flows to the distance through the canal, and flows into the dense forest.

Uncle Chang introduced to everyone: "This is the sap of the sacred tree."

He said this in Zhongzhou dialect with a strong accent. Wan Cai was stunned for a moment, suspecting that he had heard it wrong: "You said this pool of water is the sap of a sacred tree?"

"Yes, it's also our daily water. You can get it from the pool if you want." Uncle Chang looked at Fang Yujian who was being carried on his back, "Let the wounded drink some first."

"...No hurry," Pei Yannian said with a smile, "Come get water after we put away the things."

Uncle Chang nodded and told everyone: "The water in the pool can only be used for drinking, the upper reaches of the canal can be used for washing vegetables, and the middle and lower reaches can be used for bathing and washing clothes."

There are now two women washing clothes by the ditch downstream.

Wan Cai smiled and said, "Okay, we will remember."

After introducing the water pool, Uncle Chang took the adventure team to the outside of three wooden bungalows not far away, which is Taoyuan Primary School.

Two of the three rooms are classrooms, and one is the teacher's dormitory, but the teacher has left, so the dormitory is now empty with simple furniture. This room was allocated to the patient Fang Yujian and the staff who took care of him. Two teammates.

Others lived in classrooms, or tents, and moved the few desks to the walls, leaving enough space for them to pitch their tents.

Uncle Chang didn't stay for long, and after inviting everyone to his house for dinner at night, he left.

After Uncle Chang left, everyone looked at Wan Cai: "Is that pool of water the sap of the sacred tree?"

"I don't know." Wancai explained, "The last time I came, I lived at Uncle Chang's house and drank the water from his house. I didn't come to the pool, so I didn't know that the sap of the sacred tree was the pool water. "

"You don't know that the sap of the sacred tree is the drinking water here?" Pei Yannian asked.

Wancai shook his head: "I don't know, no one told me last time. After I got here, when I drank the first bowl of water, someone told me it was the sap of the sacred tree. I didn't think it was special. But I was kind enough to give it to me to drink, so I was too embarrassed to ask why tree sap and water taste the same."

"Could it be that the fake tree sap they gave you to drink? That is, the pond water is just ground water? It's just their psychological effect that it can cure diseases and detoxify?"

Wancai: "...Is it not possible?"

Ouyang Chun took someone to fetch a bucket of pond water and came back, tested it with testing equipment, and found no common harmful substances.

Pei Yannian took a sip and smacked his lips: "Slightly sweet, non-toxic."

"Shi Yan, help me see if there is any supernatural substance in it." He took the cup and walked to Ruopu who was holding the big cat.

Ruopu adjusted his posture so that the big cat's head was facing Pei Yannian.

The big cat "meowed" in dissatisfaction, and then saw the cup handed to it, its eyes were attracted, stretched out a front paw to touch the water in the cup, then lifted the paw, and then put It pressed its paws into the cup, and after repeating this several times, it finally retracted its paws and patted the wet paws on Ruo Pu's shoulder.

Pei Yannian said, "How?"

Ruopu hesitated and said: "Shi Yan seems to be in cat form now."

"……what do you mean?"

"He just seemed to be playing with water."

"..."

"Doctor Pei, when will Shi Yan recover?"

"It shouldn't take long, let's see it tomorrow morning."

Unable to ascertain the composition of the pool water, in the end everyone decided not to drink it, but continued to drink the water they had brought with them.

As for Fang Yujian, he continued to use the old method (healing ability) to detoxify.

Everyone was fine in the afternoon, some people stayed indoors to rest, some people went to the village to communicate with the villagers, tried to buy some supernatural substances from them, and obtained some useful information—for example: the pool of water next to the sacred tree is really the so-called God tree sap?

Ruopu is responsible for taking care of the big cat.He took the big cat to a hillside covered with short grass near the school. After hesitating for a while, he squatted down and carefully put the big cat down. It was like catching a big cat at any time—he was a little afraid that the big cat would run away as soon as he let go, and that would be troublesome.

But the big cat didn't run away, it just looked at Ruopu, then patted his outstretched hand with its paw, as if wondering why he maintained this strange movement.

Ruopu smiled, withdrew his hand, and sat down beside the big cat. As soon as he sat down, the big cat immediately jumped up and put half of its body in his arms. He hugged the big cat and combed it with his fingers.

The big cat squinted its eyes lazily, as if sleepy. Ruopu combed its long fur and looked around. This area is a small plain, with a peach blossom forest in the north, sacred trees in the middle, and farmland in the south.

The peach blossom forest and farmland are bathed in sunlight, as is the hill-like sacred tree, but the whole village including the primary school is located under the canopy of the sacred tree, half of the sunlight is filtered by the leaves of the sacred tree, so it looks a little dark here, as if it is different from the outside world. The world seems to be separated.

Ruopu looked up and saw a big tree branch that few people could hug. His eyes followed the tree branch and looked at the trunk of the sacred tree on the hillside. He remembered the hole in the tree trunk that he had explored before. The space is very large, but it is also because the sacred tree is too big, the cross section of the trunk should be about [-] square meters, and it is normal to have one or several tree holes of thousands of square meters inside.

Ruopu listened to the voice in the tree again, but he didn't hear any obvious abnormal sound, so he extended his hearing to the distance.

He first listened to all directions in general, and noticed that there were faint voices in the southeast direction, so he focused his attention there.

Soon, he was sure that he heard the voices of many people, it should be a team, he measured the distance with sound waves, and took out his mobile phone - there is no signal here, but there is a downloaded version of the electronic map on his mobile phone. Marked the approximate location of the team, and then estimated the arrival time of the other party based on the surrounding terrain - it should arrive tomorrow.

Later, Ruo Pu told Pei Yannian about it, but he didn't say that he heard it, and Pei Yannian also tacitly agreed that he scanned it with a sonic radar.

Pei Yannian said: "That's unfortunate, I hope they won't cause us any trouble."

Some time later, those who had gone for a walk in the village returned.

Song Mingqing said: "In the perception of the villagers, that pool of water is the sap of the sacred tree, which can really cure diseases and detoxify."

This is the answer he obtained by peeping at other people's memories.

Ruopu asked, "If you cut the bark of the sacred tree, would the sap flow out like a pool of water?"

"I don't know," Song Mingqing searched the memories he saw, "They haven't done this before."

Lin Zirui said: "Shall we try it? By the way, cut a small branch and bring it back."

"We can find a chance to try." Pei Yannian said, "But we have to do it when we are about to leave. We will be found out then, and we can run away directly. If we do it now, we will probably be kicked out of the village in advance, which is not worthwhile."

When night fell, everyone was invited by Uncle Chang to go to his house for dinner. If Pu didn't go, he would accompany Big Cat.

The two ate the instant rice brought from Zhongzhou. The big cat didn't seem to like it, but when Ruopu fed it, it was willing to eat it. Ruopu put down his own meal and fed the big cat one spoonful after another. The whole box lunch.

Putting down the empty lunch box, Ruo Pu embraced the big cat, and touched its stomach hesitantly: "Aren't you full?"

"Meow." The big cat turned over and lay on Ruopu's lap, as if to let him continue touching.

"Is it really full?" Ruopu muttered as if looking for an excuse, and then he rubbed the big cat's white belly with peace of mind, oh, these fluffy and soft long hairs feel so good to the touch.

It's a pity that the other people came back not long after. Hearing the sound, Ruo Pu quickly adjusted the posture of the big cat lying on the salty fish from a lying position to a prone position, and then held it with one hand, and picked up a book with the other , pretending to be reading a book.

The big cat patted the book in Ruopu's hand with its paw dissatisfied. Ruopu lifted the book up, and the big cat squatted up reluctantly, and finally slapped the book away.

The door was pushed open, Lin Zirui and others walked into the room, Ruo Pu picked up the book and put it aside: "Why are you back so early?"

"It feels like people don't welcome us very much."

"Oh?"

We met some villagers on the way to Uncle Chang’s house, and we took the initiative to say hello to the villagers. For some reason, the villagers were different from the daytime and became very indifferent.

When he arrived at Uncle Chang's house, Uncle Chang himself was quite enthusiastic, but his family was quite cold, and it seemed that they were not welcome to visit the house.

Everyone didn't stay at Uncle Chang's house for a long time, and went back to school after dinner.

"Why are they doing this?" Ruo Pu said, "Could it be that they found out that we came for the sacred tree?"

"I do not know."

Ruo Pu listened to the movements in the village, and found nothing unusual - no one talked about them, could it be that Lin Zirui and the others were too sensitive and overthinking it?

At ten o'clock in the evening, everyone went to bed early, and Ruopu couldn't sleep because he was carrying a heavy load—the big cat was on his stomach, so he didn't have to worry about pressing down on its fur, but it weighed about twenty catties The cat can't fall asleep even if it's on anyone's stomach.

However, even if Ruo Pu fell asleep, he couldn't sleep deeply. Although there was a cat's heartbeat to help him sleep, this was an unfamiliar environment after all, so he had to be alert.

There is still no abnormality in the village. In the southeast direction outside the village, not far from the village in a straight line, there is a group of people who are very active. They are the people Ruo Pu found in the afternoon.

Ruo Pu listened casually, and found that the number of the other party was about [-] people. The large team seemed to be an adventure team hired by a commercial company.

"What are you doing? Get out!" Suddenly, a sharp female voice stood out from the crowd.

Ruo Pu's attention or curiosity was drawn away, and after a while, he discovered that it was a sexual harassment incident. A man wanted to take advantage of a girl, but was reprimanded by the girl.